Mahi Binebine’s work presents the extremes of the human condition, reducing figures to silhouettes. They wrestle with one another or embrace each other in a hostile, unsettling, and often confining world. Their lines are interwoven, showing how their bodies are inescapably connected. Binebine took his first steps in abstraction in 1980 in Paris, before moving to New York in 1994 to dedicate himself fully to his painting and writing. “The writing is done through small touches of the inside that create the images, while painting is the creation of the image which allows access to the inside,” he says.

Binebine’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and in other museums worldwide. His paintings and sculptures are shown in numerous exhibitions and biennials globally.